NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says he agreed to settle lawsuits over Trump University “for a small fraction of the potential award because as president I have to focus on our country.” Trump made the comment on Twitter Saturday. He also tweeted that “the ONLY bad thing about winning the presidency is that…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The nation’s most advanced weather satellite ever awaits a sunset liftoff. NASA is launching the $1 billion GOES-R satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. An unmanned Atlas rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:42 p.m. Saturday. The satellite will aim for a 22,300-mile-high…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis region’s school desegregation program, one of the longest-running and largest programs in the U.S., will begin winding down under a plan approved by a governing board on Friday. The program that allows black city students to attend schools in the suburbs was granted a five-year extension by the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s highest court says it won’t intervene in a lawsuit by activists seeking an independent probe of a prosecutor’s handling of grand jury proceedings in the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown. The Missouri Supreme Court announced in an order obtained by media outlets Friday that it won’t hear the matter.…